A Soggy, Windy Audrain Concours d’Elegance Muddles Through in Newport

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Blustery fall weather welcomed a hardy crowd eager to spend time in an elegant setting with some classic cars.

, is a regular at the concours and was seen admiring the Nethercutt Collection’s 1931 Bugatti Type 51 coupe. “In the old days, cars like this would have been broken up, with one person getting the chassis and someone else the engine,” Leno said. “It’s a beautiful car.” The attendees thought so too, because the Bugatti won the People’s Choice award. The Hagerty Youth Judges award went to the 1912 Mercer 35C Raceabout from the Heritage Museums and Gardens.

An impossibly elegant 1938 Packard 1604 with English body by Mayfair was created for the mother of Aristotle Onassis, but at one point after World War II it was used as a chicken coop. A soldier bought it for $600 and had it shipped to the US.Alexander and Teri Giacobetti’s rare 1922 Secqueville-Hoyau Sports Two-Seater was a light car from Alfred Secqueville and Gaston Hoyau, who built cars between 1919 and 1924 in Gennevillers, France.

 

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